Big Brother is listening

[<rms () computerbytesman com>]

I was traveling yesterday and missed out on this a little test a few blocks
from my house.  I wonder if firecrackers create false positives for this new
gun shot tracking system. 

Richard

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/10/04/police_fire_blanks_in_p
ark_as_part_of_a_test/

Police fire blanks in park as part of a test
By John C. Drake, Globe Staff  |  October 4, 2007

A quiet night in the South End was disrupted by gunfire last evening,
startling area residents, but pleasing Boston police who had fired blanks
from Blackstone Park to test a new gunshot detection system.

The two-minute test about 9:30 p.m. was the first of six last night within a
6.2-mile area of Boston that has been blanketed with gunshot sensors,
designed to alert police dispatchers in 10 seconds to the location of
gunfire within 30 feet of its origin.

Boston police Superintendent Dan Linskey said that 91 sensors are in place
and that last night's tests constituted the final step in calibrating the
high-tech crime-fighting system before its full implementation.

"We're hoping to stop gunfights and people using guns in the city of
Boston," Linskey said at Blackstone Park before the test. "We're hoping to
do that by showing up on crime scenes in a timely fashion."

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